{
  "id": "2611.09006",
  "title": "Rethinking Latent Reasoning for Generative Recommendation: Beyond Teacher-Generated CoT and Recurrent Hidden-State Feedback",
  "authors": "Yiwen Chen, Fuwei Zhang, Zehao Chen, Deqing Wang, Hehan Li, Peizhi Xu, Hanmeng Liu, Shuanglong Li, Xin Pei, Fuzhen Zhuang, Zhao Zhang",
  "first_public": "2026-11-06",
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2611.09006",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09006",
  "html_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2611.09006v1",
  "lens": [
    "learned-tokens"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "discrete-token",
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "parallel",
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "supervised"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "efficiency",
    "capability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language"
  ],
  "summary": "Adds learned thought tokens between a user’s item history and the next-item prediction. Trains their hidden states to represent keywords from past items, then processes all thought tokens in one prompt pass without generating a written reasoning trace.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature review, 2026-11-09",
  "author_names": [
    "Yiwen Chen",
    "Fuwei Zhang",
    "Zehao Chen",
    "Deqing Wang",
    "Hehan Li",
    "Peizhi Xu",
    "Hanmeng Liu",
    "Shuanglong Li",
    "Xin Pei",
    "Fuzhen Zhuang",
    "Zhao Zhang"
  ],
  "record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.09006/",
  "legacy_record_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/#paper-2611-09006",
  "citation_date": "2026-11-06",
  "json_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.09006/record.json",
  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.09006/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.09006/citation.bib",
  "csl_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2611.09006/citation.csl.json",
  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.09006"
}